Hello, I'm the league secretary for a table tennis league. I have to generate a weekly results report, league table, and player averages, from results cards which arrive by post or email.
The data is of the form: Division: 1 Week: 7 Home: Some Team Away: Different Team Player A: Fred Bloggs Player B: Nora Batty Player X: Jim Smith Player Y: Edna Jones A vs X: 3-0 B vs Y: 3-2 A vs Y: 3-0 B vs X: 3-2 Doubles: 3-1 >From this I can calculate the points allocated to teams and produce a table. I've not done any real python for about 6 years, but figured it'd be fun to design and write something that would take away the time and error issues associated with generating this manually. Sure I could build a spreadsheet, but this seems more fun. I'm currently thinking through possible approaches, from parsing results written in, eg YAML, to a menu-driven system, to a web app. I'm generally in favour of the simplest thing that could possibly work, but I am conscious that there's a lot of room for data entry error and thus validation, if I just parse a file, or make a CLI. OTOH I have never ever written a web app, with forms etc. There's no time constraint here - this is merely for fun, and to make my life easier. Any thoughts? S. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
